Please record some ideas you have for using a wiki in the classroom. This is just a brainstorming list and there is no right or wrong answer. The collective brain is much more powerful than a single brain!
- Study guides made by student groups for themselves and peers: each group prepares the guide for one aspect of the unit or responsibility rotates: one unit guide per semester.
- Vocabulary lists and examples of the words in use, contributed by students (ongoing throughout the year).
- A calculus wiki for those wicked-long problems so the class can collaborate on how to solve them (a “wicked wiki”?)
- A student-made glossary of scientific terms with illustrations and definitions added by the class (using original digital photos or those from other online Creative Commons sources, such as Flickr). Linking to separate pages with detailed information would allow the main glossary list to remain reasonably short.
- A collaborative project with students in another location or all over the world: A day in the life of an American/Japanese/French/Brazilian/Mexican family. (This one would require finding contacts in other locations, of course).
- Detailed and illustrated descriptions of governmental processes: how a bill becomes a law, etc.
- An online writer’s workshop or poetry workshop with suggested revisions from classmates. Start with drafts and collaborate. Make sure students use the notes tab to explain why they make changes.
- A virtual art gallery with ongoing criticism and responses regarding artwork found online or originals from your art classroom (a cwitiqwiki).
- Make a nutrition wiki with ideas for ways to eat healthy at local restaurants (a nutwition wiki?).
- A careers wiki. Have students interview people about their jobs and write up descriptions of different career paths. Invite the workers to add their own input and pictures, as well. Keep this wiki as part of an alumni project for your high school students investigating school-to-work options.